NOTICIAS
For more Events-related information, please visit the Columbia University Sundial Events page as well as the SIPA News and Events page.

January 2008

Title: ILAS Travel Grant Presentation: “Sustainable development in minerals-rich economies: the cases of Chile and Peru”
Speaker: Jose Carlos Orihuela, Ph.D. candidate in Sustainable Development, Columbia University
Date/Time: Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: Ecological consequences of land use change in the Sonoran Desert: Understanding ecosystems for increasing sustainability
Speaker: Alejandro Castellanos, O'Gorman Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, ILAS
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

 
 February 2008

Title: Information Session: "ILAS Fellowship and Travel Grants 2008”
Speaker: Eliza Kwon-Ahn, ILAS Administrator
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: "Contemporary Issues of Race and Race Relations in Brazil"
Speaker: Professor Lilia Schwarcz, Department of History, Universidade de São Paulo and Tinker Visiting Professor, ILAS
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 6:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event.
Title: Political Economy of Mexico Series: "The Immigration Debate: A Different View"
Speaker: Rodolfo de la Garza, ISERP Faculty Fellow, Department of Political Science, SIPA
Date/Time: Thursday, February 7, 2008, 4:10 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: The Macroeconomics of the Latin American Boom
Speaker: Jose Antonio Ocampo, Columbia University
Date/Time: Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 6pm-8pm
Location: IAB Room 802
CoSponsors: PEPM, Brazil Center
Title: ILAS Travel Grant Presentation: “Explorations in Pre-Columbian Anthropology”
Speaker: Maria del Rosario Ferro, Ph.D. candidate, Anthropology, Columbia University
Date/Time: Thursday, February 14, 2008, 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Conference: What Can the United States Learn from Chile's Reforms?
Date/Time: Friday, February 15, 2008., 10:00 am-5:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 1512
What are the lessons that Chile has to offer American policymakers? For many of the policy-related ideas and topics currently under discussion in the U.S., conversations remain at a theoretical level (e.g., pension reform) or, at best, with data from small scale implementations (e.g., school vouchers). But Chile has taken these reforms on at a national level-and we believe it is important to get these results out to a wider audience here in the United States. This program is sponsored by QMSS, ISERP, SIPA, and ILAS. For more information, click here.

Conference: A Rising Tide: Economic and Political Relations between China and Latin America
Speaker: Click here for Program
Date/Time: Monday, February 18, 2008, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 1512

Title: “The Turbulence in the Global Economy and the Outlook for Brazil”
Speaker: Paulo Vieira da Cunha, former Director of International Affairs, Central Bank of Brazil and Visiting Scholar, Center for Brazilian Studies
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 6:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event.
Title: ILAS Travel Grant Presentation: Mexico
Speaker: Kensuke Teshima, Ph.D. candidate, Economics, Columbia University
Humberto R. Salinas, M.A. candidate, Urban Planning, Columbia University
Date/Time: Thursday, February 21, 2008, 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: Political Economy of Mexico Series: "The Mexican Economy and Economic Policy"
Speaker: Santiago Levy, Chief economist, Inter-American Development Bank
Date/Time: Thursday, February 21, 2008, 4:10 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: 501 Schermerhorn

Title: “Brazil and the Energy Politics of the Hemisphere: vassal or kingmaker?”
Speaker: Annette Hester, Senior Associate (non-resident), Office of the Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: Summer Internships in Latin America
Speaker: ILAS Internship Travel Grants Recipients
Date/Time: Thursday, February 28, 2008, 12:15 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: The History of Latin American Intellectuals in the Nineteenth Century: Problems and Perspectives
Speaker: Jorge Myers, Tinker Visiting Professor at University of Chicago
Date/Time: Friday, February 29, 2008, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: Hamilton 420


 March 2008

Title: A Critical Analysis of the Brazilian Response to HIV/AIDS: Lessons Learned for Controlling and Mitigating the Epidemic in Developing Countries
Speaker: Jane Galvão, Senior Program Officer for HIV/AIDS/STI with the International Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) in New York
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 6:00pm
Location: IAB Room 802
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event.

Title: ILAS Travel Grant Presentation: Technical Politics, Political Technology: Exploring the History of the Internet in Brazil
Speaker: Lucas Graves, Ph.D. Candidate, Communications, Columbia University
 Date/Time: Thursday, March 6, 2008, 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: Political Economy of Mexico Series: "International integration, Industrial upgrading and the labor market in Mexico"
Speaker: Eric Verhoogen, Department of Economics at SIPA
Date/Time: Thursday, March 6, 2008, 4:10 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Implications
Speaker: Jorge Enrique Robledo, Colombian Senator, PDA
Date/Time: Thursday, March 13, 2008, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: 6th Annual Education Across the Americas Conference: Educational Equity, Policy, and Transformation in the Americas
Speaker: TBA
Date/Time: Friday, March 14, and Saturday, March 15, 2008
Location: Teachers College
This is event is organized by the Association of Latin American Students at Teachers College.
Title: ILAS Travel Grant Presentation: Education across the Americas: Peru and Ecuador Case Studies
Speakers: Patricia Mayer, Ed.D. candidate, International Education Development, Columbia University and Elizabeth Sumida Huaman, Ed.D. candidate, International Education Development, Columbia University
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: Brazil’s Changing Role in the Global Economy: An Analysis of Trade and Trade Policy
Speaker: Professor Albert Fishlow, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University and Co-Founder, Center for Brazilian Studies
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 6:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event.

Title: “La Invención del Ciudadano y la Modernización de Bogotá”
(Event will be in Spanish)
Speaker: Fabio Zambrano, Full Professor in History and Director of the Center for Urban Studies at the National University of Colombia.
Date/Time: Thursday, March 27, 2008, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: 420 Hamilton Hall

Title: Political Economy of Mexico Series: "US Mexican Relations"
Speaker: Arturo Sarukhan, Ambassador of Mexico to the United States
Date/Time: Thursday, March 27, 2008, 4:10 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: 501 Schermerhorn


 April 2008

Title: ILAS Travel Grant Presentation: Sociology across the Americas: Argentina, Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala Case Studies
Speaker: Aurora Fredriksen, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, Columbia University, and Daniel Fridman, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, Columbia University
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: Recent Political Developments and the Political Outlook in Brazil
Speaker: Christopher Garman and Erasto Almeida, Eurasia Group
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 6:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event.

Title: Political Economy of Latin America Seminar and Comparative Politics Seminar: Endogenous Oil Rents
Speaker: Thad Dunning, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Research Fellow at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 12:15 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 707
Co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science

Title: Political Economy of Mexico Series: "Mexican Immigration in US-Mexican Relations"
Speaker: Jorge Castaneda, Professor at NYU and former Foreign Minister of Mexico
Date/Time: Thursday, April 10, 2008, 4:10 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: 501 Schermerhorn

Title: Conference: Ethnicity, Sexuality, Age And Gender In Brazil: Comparative Perspectives
Date/Time: Friday, April 11, 2008, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Conference Room 420, Hamilton Hall
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Proudly sponsored by: The Institute of Latin American Studies, The Center for Brazilian Studies, and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Columbia University
Title: “Languages and Social Identities in Chiapas: Past and Present – Session I"
(Event will be in Spanish)
Speaker: Juan Pedro Viqueira, Professor and Researcher, El Colegio de México; O'Gorman Senior Research Scholar, Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 12:10 pm – 1:45 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: “Languages and Social Identities in Chiapas: Past and Present – Session II"
(Event will be in Spanish)
Speaker: Juan Pedro Viqueira, Professor and Researcher, El Colegio de México; O'Gorman Senior Research Scholar, Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 12:10 pm – 1:45 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: “Languages and Social Identities in Chiapas: Past and Present – Session III"
(Event will be in Spanish)
Speaker: Juan Pedro Viqueira, Professor and Researcher, El Colegio de México; O'Gorman Senior Research Scholar, Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University
Date/Time: Monday, April 21, 2008, 12:10 pm – 1:45 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: ILAS Travel Grant Presentation: The New York Spanish-Language Press: American Hemispheric Relations, 1848-1918
Speaker: Marissa L. Garland, PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: ILAS Travel Grant Presentation: Community Justice in Bolivia
Speaker: Benjamin Locke, MIA candidate, SIPA, Columbia University
Date/Time: Thursday, April 24, 2008, 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: Political Economy of Mexico Series: "Drugs and Democracy in Mexico"
Speaker: Sergio Aguayo, El Colegio de Mexico
Date/Time: Thursday, April 24, 2008, 4:10 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: Conference: Iberia & The Americas: Contacts and Migrations
Date/Time: Friday, April 25, 2008, 1:00pm and Saturday, April 26, 2008, 8:45 am – 1:00 pm
Location: 301 Philosophy Hall

Documentary Screening: “Brazil in Black and White”, a highly acclaimed documentary concerning the vestibular system in Brazil and the general issue of educational reform.
Speaker: Adam Stepan, Director
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 6:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 1501
This is a Center for Brazilian Studies Event

Title: A Critical Juncture in Chavez Revolution? Analyzing Venezuelan politics after the December 2007 Electoral Defeat
Speakers: Margarita López Maya, Former Edward Larocque Tinker Professor, Columbia University and Universidad Central de Venezuela; Francisco Rodríguez, Wesleyan University. Commentary by Alan Brewer-Carías, Universidad Central de Venezuela and Columbia University School of Law; Tony Spanakos, Montclaire State University
Date/Time: Monday, April 28, 12:15- 2:00
Location: IAB Room 802
To read papers by the speakers, please visit our Publications Page, under “Resources”

May 2008

Title: Settling the Urban Sertão: Notes on the History of Brazil's Informal Cities
Brodwyn M. Fischer, Department of History, Northwestern University
Date/Time: Thursday, May 1, 2008, 12:15 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: Imagining the Indigenous Community in Mexico
Professor Emilio Kourí, Director, Katz Center for Mexican Studies, The University of Chicago
Date/Time: Friday, May 9, 12-2 PM
Location: IAB Room 802

Title: Imagining the Indigenous Community in Mexico
Speaker: Emilio Kourí, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Katz Center for Mexican Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of "A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico"
Date/Time: Friday, May 9, 2008, 12:10 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: IAB Room 802
Unless otherwise noticed, all events are free and open to the general public. For more Events-related information, please visit the Columbia University Sundial Events page as well as the SIPA News and Events page.